Travers Island contests yield 10 yard dash winner Cram
The article notes at Travers Island N C Johnny Cram wins the 10 yard dash in 12 seconds. It also covers a gas of the Western Manufacturing Company safe blown open, a drowning at Dubuque, typhoid near Sabula, a child injured near North English, miners in Boone county striking, and various local incidents and court actions.
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Travers Island
N. C
Johnny Cram
Western Manufacturing Company
Albia
Dubuque
Oscar Henry
Percy Swayne
Des Moines Dispatch
Henry Ruffrok
Les Moines Musical College
Farmers lose hogs to cholera in McLean County Illinois
Rural Illinois notes report hog losses from cholera across McLean and neighboring counties. Other items include a pumpkin vine 123 feet long bearing twenty seven pumpkins and several international political and legal notes from the era.
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McLean
Illinois
Leadville
Tarmace
First Presbyterian Church
Washington
President's Church
Mystery Abduction Shocks St. Joseph as Priest Faces Accusation
Fifteen year old Maud Steidel vanishes after leaving her mother’s house on Wednesday. Her mother accuses Father Dominick Wegner of St. Mary's parish of abducting her daughter, while police and detectives question the priest.
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St. Joseph
Maud Steidel
Dominick Wegner
St. Mary’s Parish
Dominick
Wreck on the St. Louis Keokuk Route Near Amada Missouri
A north bound passenger train on the St. Louis Keokuk and Northwestern line derailed after striking a mule at Amada switch eight miles south of Clarksville. Conductor Moulton was severely cut, engineer J P Murphy badly injured, fireman Frank Harper escaped unharmed. Injured travelers include James Wilson and wife of Rockport Illinois Mrs M S Patterson Meadville Mo J W Bowker Dorvester Neb Mrs James Brown Hannibal Mo Miss Belle Fleming Hannibal Mo T P Turner Hannibal Mo E A Collins a colored cook and Frank S Brown of New York traveling for D Lieman & Co It is not believed any will die.
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Clarksville
St. Louis, Keokuk
Illinois
M. S. Patterson
Meadville
J. W. Bowker
Dorvester
Neb
James Brown
Hannibal
Belle Fleming
T. P. Turner
E. A. Collins
Frank S. Brown
Broadway
New York
D. Lieman & Co
Ports Opened for Mexican Cattle Entry to U S
Secretary Morton orders that from October 22 cattle may be admitted from Mexico for grazing and immediate slaughter through San Diego Nogales El Paso Eagle Pass Brownsville and Laredo subport. Admission subject to inspection. cattle must be free from or not exposed to contagious disease.
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Washington
Morton
United States
Mexico
San Diego
Nogales
el Paso
Eagle Pass
Brownsville
Laredo
Bureau of Animal Industry
Farmers Hold Wheat for Higher Prices Says Duluth Dispatch
A Duluth dispatch reports farmers along the wheat country plan to hold their grain to secure better prices. They scrape together funds for lumber and even repurpose boxes and barrels as temporary storage bins, causing a smaller movement than last year.
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Duluth
Minn
Plague of Bugs Immerses Wichira Streets at Night
A bugs invasion in Wichira after midnight darkened street lights and covered sidewalks in an inch of insects. Newsroom typesetting machines were clogged and operators fled. Early morning crews drained over 100 gallons from lamp globes.
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Wichira
Warehouse Fire Destroys Tobacco Inventory in Cincinnati
Fire at the Commerce street storage end of the Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco company damaged a warehouse containing 2775 hogs heads of tobacco. With each hogshead averaging 1309 pounds the stock was worth about 250000 dollars at low price, and total losses exceed 300000 dollars.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Commerce Street
Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco Company
Mare Alix Serously Injured in Illinois Race
Springfield Illinois Sept 3 Andy Mc Dowell, driver of Alix, says the mare is badly injured and may not trot again this season. She sprained a wheel bone on a hard spot in the track while starting the home stretch, aiming for 2 03% but finished in 2 13%.
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Alix
Springfield
Andy McDowell
Fulton county arson cases end in acquittals
Judge Orr ruled the confessions of Baughman Brown and Henry were obtained by fraud and violence in the Fulton county courthouse arson case. All three defendants were acquitted after the long opinion was delivered.
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Lewistown
Ill
Fulton County
Orr
Baughman
Brown
Henry
Hinshaw
Danville
Ind
Gully
Michigan Tax Levy Sets Record for State Revenue
Lansing with the auditor general announcing a December payment in any county of a record state tax totaling 3,013,919 dollars. The levy exceeds last year by 1,324,783 dollars.
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Michigan
Lansing
Mich
Virginia Cyclone Harms Green Bottom Area
A cyclone swept Green Bottom with extensive property damage. Sixteen men were in a barn that blew away. John Mance and Will Gindy were seriously injured by falling timbers. Timothy Blake and Isadore Clark also suffered serious injuries.
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Virginia
Britain threatens Shanghai bombardment if China resists
Shanghai reports a fourteen ship fleet may stage a demonstration before Nankin as British demands intensify. British ships Rainbow Plover Spartan Swift Aeolus plus others are at Yangtse river ports and Woo-Sung Shanghai. London says the Chinese government faces peril and a possible Manchu dynasty crisis amid Mohammedan insurrection.
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Nankin
Se-Chuen
Rainbow
Plover
Spartan
Swift
Aeolus
Yang-tse-Kiang
Carolina
Edgar
Archer
Alacrity
Woo-Sung
Daphne
Firebrand
London
England
Kan-Su
West
Times
China
Pekin
Iowa miners uneasy over wage demands in Polk County
Des Moines reports miners at a delegate convention in Governor's Square to push higher mining rates. They accuse an operators group formed last spring of keeping wages low and curbing dealer competition, threatening a winter strike.
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Boone County
Fraser
Dubuque
John R. Gentry
Joe Patchen
Fidel
Gentry
Des Moines
Iowa
Po.k County
Governor's Square
Operators’ Association
Brooklyn Armored Cruiser Set for Launch at Cramps
Washington Sept 30 The new armored cruiser Brooklyn will be launched at the Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia next Wednesday. Described as the highest type of armored cruiser, Brooklyn is said to surpass the New York in speed range and coal capacity and is often called the New York’s sister ship. The vessel, authorized July 19 1892, is expected to cost over 3 million dollars and to achieve about 20 knots with 16 000 indicated horsepower and a 1 750 ton coal capacity.
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Washington
Brooklyn
Cramps
Philaphi
New York
Kiel
San Francisco
Jean Bart
New York Naval Review
Fire destroys Sheldon & Co. elevator and nearby buildings
Fire in Goodhue Minnesota yesterday gutted Sheldon & Co. elevator and ten other structures. The blaze began at James Ahrens' building at 12 30 and spread to Andersons hotel and store, BE. Ruckers general merchandise, Howard & Co drug store, T. B. Sheldon Co elevator, and Pat Kellys depot. Six cars burned on the track. Red Wing sent a special train with equipment arriving at 3 30. Some buildings saved. total loss 40000 with 10000 insured.
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Minnesota
Goodhue
Minn
Sheldon & Co
James Ahrens
Ames
Anderson
C. BE. Rucker
Howard & Co
T. B. Sheldon Co
Pat Kelly
Redwing Fire Department
Redwing Department
Conspiracy to Kill Marquis Ito Revealed in Japan
Yokohama October 1 reports say no actual attempt on Marquis Ito's life occurred. instead a conspiracy was uncovered with arrested participants and documents linking the case.
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Count Ito
Yokohama
Marquis Ito
Council of Japan
English timber firm buys 14000 acres near Takush harbor
Vancouver October 1 a British company purchased about 14000 acres of timber land near Takush harbor in British Columbia. The land is timbered with yellow cypress and a mill will be erected immediately on the site. The company has a capital of 400000 dollars.
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Vancouver
B. C
Takush Harbor
Roll Call Tampered With in Durrant Case
San Francisco October 1 details emerge on a suspect roll call record offered in evidence for Theodore Durrant. Prosecution hints at deliberate shielding and questions the authenticity of that day’s entry as defense prepares to target Reverend J George Gibson, Emanuel Baptist Church pastor, with handwriting comparisons tied to the newspaper copy linking Blanche Lamont’s rings.
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Durrant
San Francisco
Cal
Theodore Durrant
Gray
Duprey
J. George Gibson
Emanuel Baptist Church
Dr. Gibson
Blanche Lamont
Treaty yields rich gold land to United States in Montana
Great Falls Mont Sept 30 A treaty with the Piegans cedes a 60 by 18 mile strip of land rich in gold silver and copper to the United States. Payments total 1.5 million dollars in ten annual installments of cattle and annuities beginning 1898. The commission plans to seek a similar cession from Gros Ventres at Fort Belknap in the Little Rocky mountains.
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Great Falls
Mont
United States
Birch Creek
Fort Belknap
Gros Ventres
Lillle Rocky Mountains
Pettigrew backs Cushman K. Davis for president
Senator ard Pettigrew says Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota is the Republican presidential candidate, with solid backing from Minnesota and western states including the Dakotas Montana Oregon Washington and part of Wisconsin at the nominating convention.
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New York
Ard T. Pettigrew
Cushman K. Davis
Minnesota
Pettigrew
Northwest
Dakotas
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Wisconsin
Daisy mill elevator destroyed by fire in West Superior
The Daisy mill elevator in the East End mills group burned at 5:30 Saturday. Owned by the E. P. Allis Company of Milwaukee, it held 80,000 bushels of wheat with a $50,000 loss on grain and another $50,000 on the building, both insured. The fire was caused by flour dust explosion. rebuilding is expected.
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West Superior
Wis
East End
E. P. Allis Company
Milwaukee
Wright Improves. Doctor Expects Recovery
Philadelphia report on October 1 states Dr. F W Pennett says Harry Wright is still improving and doctors hope for his ultimate recovery. The update comes from the attending physician at Atlantic City.
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Harry Wright
Philadelphia
F. W. Pennett
Atlantic City
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